
Contested Fields
A Global History of Modern Football
Alan McDougall(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 28. February 2020
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4875-9457-2 (ISBN)
Description
Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain's formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world's most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe.
Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football's transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football's international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation.
Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football's transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football's international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 b&w tables
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-9457-2 (9781487594572)
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Person
Alan McDougall is a professor of History at the University of Guelph.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Modern Football: A Timeline
1. Introduction
2. Migrations
3. Money
4. Competitions
5. Gender
6. Race
7. Spaces
8. Spectators
9. Confrontations
10. Conclusion
Appendix: FIFA Member Associations
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Modern Football: A Timeline
1. Introduction
2. Migrations
3. Money
4. Competitions
5. Gender
6. Race
7. Spaces
8. Spectators
9. Confrontations
10. Conclusion
Appendix: FIFA Member Associations
Select Bibliography
Index